A new online resource on Romanian synagogues features a photographic documentation by Daniel Gruenfeld of 14 synagogues in the northeastern part of the country (with, we hope, more to follow).
The web site is a project of Centropa, the Jewish research and historical institute based in Vienna and Budapest. The web site states:
In the spring of 2016, we undertook a project to preserve, photographically, some of the most remarkable synagogues we know of in Central and Eastern Europe—the Jewish prayer houses in northeastern Romania that are filled with painted murals and wooden carvings, and which date back to the mid 1800s, and in some cases, even longer.
The project, carried out with support from the David Berg Foundation, documents synagogues in
The photographs are being provided also to Tel Aviv University and to the Center for Jewish Art — for use in its important new online Catalogue of Wall Paintings in Central and East European Synagogues, which includes detailed scholarly description of most of the synagogues on the Centropa site and many others, including synagogues that no longer stand.
Click to access the Centropa synagogue documentation
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What Synagogue is closest to Targu Jiu in Gorj county?